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Date of source: Friday, May 17, 2013
Prominent Copts have refused BDP’s initiative to heal sectarian divides, with Kamāl Zākhir, a Christian thinker and coordinator of the Coptic secular movement, claiming “between us there is blood, and we are still people of the dhimmah”. He cited the example of the sectarian strife which plagued...
Date of source: Friday, May 17, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has returned to Cairo upon completion of his historic visit to Italy and the expatriate Copts . The Pope presided over his last mass which was attended by bishops and priests of the Coptic Church from Egypt as well as Europe. During the visit, Pope Tawadros II...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Public Prosecutor Tal't 'Abdullah ordered the release of Dimyānah 'Ubayd 'Abd al-Nūr, a Luxor school teacher, accused of expressing contempt for Islam, insulting Islam and proselytizing in front of students. She was given bail of twenty thousand Egyptian pounds pending further investigation (Ahmad...
Date of source: Monday, May 13, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II revealed a meeting with Vatican Pope Francis I that took place last Friday (May 10). He confirmed that he did not mediate the 2-years crisis between the Azhar and Vatican. He said he knew nothing about the dispute and revealed that he invited the Pope Francis to...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Yusrī Sa’īd, one of the returnees from Jerusalem, said that his visit was religious (visiting the places were Jesus Christ was born and crucified) and not political (Mahmūd ‘Abd al-Ghanī and Basmah Mahmūd, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, May 7, p. 6). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Al-Yawm al-Sābi' learned that Pope Tawadros cut short his retreat after intensive contact with the presidency. Last Wednesday, Apr. 10, Pope Tawadros canceled his weekly sermon and announced that he would retreat to the Bishoy Monastery in objection to the regime’s dealing with the attacks at al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Al-Yawm al-Sābi' learned that Pope Tawadros cut short his retreat after intensive contact with the presidency. Last Wednesday, Apr. 10, Pope Tawadros canceled his weekly sermon and announced that he would retreat to the Bishoy Monastery in objection to the regime’s dealing with the attacks at al-...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2013
Below is the original text as it came on The New York Times:
It’s Tuesday afternoon, and a few dozen of the faithful members of St. Mary and St. Antonios Coptic Orthodox Church in Ridgewood, Queens, are singing in the liturgy during observation of the Great Lent, the 55 days of prayer and fasting...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2013
Al-Yawm al-Sābi’ newspaper has obtained documents from the investigation into the clashes at the Cathedral, showing that 12 people have been detained, four of them Copts. However some of the accused say they were arrested while trying to prove, in police records, that they had been injured. Another...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Al-Yawm al-Sābi' interviewed a prominent lawyer and legal adviser of the Church, Ramsīs al-Najjār. Al-Najjār participated in the meeting of the Clerical Council held in order to study the Personal Status regulations for Copts, to develop a new list for the Law, including amendments to article 35...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.